Two Hungarian women working as prostitutes in Ireland described their brothel keeper as a “second mother” and a friend, a court has heard.

A man has pleaded guilty mid-trial to allowing a Dublin apartment to be used as a brothel.

A CRIMINAL’S house auctioned by the Criminal Assets Bureau this week fetched almost 100,000 euro more than the guide price, it emerged yesterday.

THE State chalked down another notable success in its crackdown on drug barons yesterday when two luxurious homes owned by one of the world’s biggest cocaine traffickers were put up for auction.